I had a very pleasant 5-night stay at Tayawat's unit in the Aree neighborhood. Tayawat is friendly, responsive, and helpful, speaks great english.

The neighborhood is good. It's a bit upscale, lots of thai (and some anglo) professional types wandering around, a bunch of trendy-ish restaurants. Still lots of street vendors in the blocks adjoining the metro stop, it's a slightly westernized bangkok experience. The building is a five minute walk from Aree BTS station, which is very important because the train gets you just about anywhere in the city reliably, quickly, cheaply.

The unit is in a large modern 15-story apartment building, one of many in the neighborhood. The building and unit are for the most part charmless but clean, new, well-functioning, everything works, it's comfortable, feels like an apartment you would find in any western city. The pictures make the unit out to be a little bigger than it is but plenty spacious for 1 or 2 people. The washing machine on the balcony works very well (drying rack on the balcony also works well) which is a nice plus. Wifi is solid.

I'm quite happy with the apartment and with Tayawat's hosting.